Example sentences of "he [verb] at [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I saw him look at it in the car when we were driving to the Lubianka . |
2 | I tried to improve it and I remember him screaming at me in the street after the first-night party in London . ’ |
3 | He looks at me for the first time . |
4 | In any case , it 's weird that whenever I say that to Keith , he looks at me with the unmistakably quizzical air of the tall thin intellectual he is , his hair on the blond side of chestnut ( now heavily greying ) ; his fair skin with his rosy cheeks reminding one of Victorian youths with perfect complexions ( or so the novels of Wilkie Collins and the paintings of the Pre-Raphaelites would have us believe ) ; his eyebrows bushy and deliberately unkempt ; his classic tweed suit of the old school , worn with a shamefully Byronic air somewhere between hippy and academic ; his accent public school , as befits his education , although he also speaks a passable Spanish , so we can keep switching languages whenever linguistic difficulties develop . |
5 | He looks at me through the mirror and nods slightly , which I take to mean he 'd like my help . |
6 | Well wha what he does is is he looks at himself in the mirror something like that and er he sees sees the body he 's jumped into . |
7 | ‘ It 's got to the point where he looks at you in the morning as if he 's wondering where we are going to send him next . |
8 | The door was slammed wide , and he came at her with the speed of the vehicle that should have killed him two nights before . |
9 | ‘ He came at her from the front then ? ’ |
10 | His forehead was ripped dark in the starlight but his cheekbones still gleamed ( an image superimposed : the sunset slanting over him as he grinned at her in the freighter ) the way she remembered . |
11 | He grinned at me in the gloom , and introduced himself as if I might recognize the name . |
12 | He grinned at us through the darkness . |
13 | He nods at us through the car window , then snaps shut the central-locking , making himself secure . |
14 | In the early evening of the next day he dressed himself in his best suit and wore a clean shirt and a razor tight collar ; he looked at himself in the mirror , yes , he looked good , almost handsome , one must die with dignity . |
15 | I 'm meant to be fighting the Germans , not going to a wedding , he said out loud , as he looked at himself in the cracked mirror above the washbasin . |
16 | As he dismounted he looked at me over the saddle and there Was that tell-nothing expression , looking at me no different than the Way he had looked at Lamarr Dean the moment before he broke a Whisky glass against his mouth . |
17 | I said that to him and he looked at me over the top of his glasses like that , cos he , in his office , he sits here , the door 's there , he sits here and I , I , everybody else has had the door open , I went in and shut the door and I stood behind him , I did n't stand in front of him , stood behind him so , keep |
18 | He looked at me across the room . |
19 | He looked at me for the first time when I said this . |
20 | He nodded and he looked at me for the first time . |
21 | He looked at her across the pillows . |
22 | He looked at her for the first time with real unease . |
23 | He looked at her for the first time since the beginning ; her head was still turned away , her hands over her face ; she had shown no further response to anything he had done . |
24 | He looked at her for the first time and saw the tears on her cheeks that were glistening in the starlight . |
25 | He looked at her with the points of his eyes , the whites still rolling . |
26 | He looked at her from the corner of his eye . |
27 | He looked at her in the driving mirror . |
28 | He looked at her in the light of the fire . |
29 | For a moment , Susan had an idea she knew what Truro Daine saw when he looked at anyone in the Gunmint . |
30 | He stared at her through the flickering shadows . |